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John Snow

John Augustine Snow

Born: 13 October 1941, Peopleton, Worcestershire
Major Teams: Sussex, Warwickshire, England.
Known As: John Snow
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium


Test Debut: England v New Zealand at Lord's, 2nd Test, 1965
Last Test:
England v West Indies at Leeds, 4th Test, 1976

ODI Debut:
England v Australia at Melbourne, One-off ODI, 1970/71
Last ODI:
England v Australia at Leeds, World Cup, 1975

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1973

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   49   71  14   772   73   13.54   0   2   16   0

                    Balls    M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             12021  415  5387  202  26.66  7-40    8   1  59.5  2.68

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding    9    4   2     9    5*   4.50  21.95   0   0    1   0

                    Balls    M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling               538   11   232   14  16.57  4-11    2   0  38.4  2.58

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1961 - 1977)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  346  451 110  4832   73*  14.17   0  11  125   0

                    Balls     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             60958 26675 1174  22.72  8-87   56   9  51.9  2.62

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (career: 1963 - 1980)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  182  133  39  1209   57   12.86   0   2   34   0

                    Balls     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling              8882  4855  251  19.34  5-15    8   2  35.3  3.27

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Profile:

John Snow was not your average fast bowler. Fiery on the field and often at odds with authority, off the field he was more tranquil and not just a reader of poetry, but a writer of it. In the early 1970s he published two volumes called Contrasts, and Moments and Thoughts. So, something of a rarity among pacemen. By his own admission, he could be an awkward customer for the game's administrators and the captains he played under - his autobiography was called Cricket Rebel.

Snow was a one-club man, making his debut for Sussex in 1961 and playing 267 matches for the county before retiring in 1977. He took 100 wickets in a season twice, his most successful year being 1966 when he took 126 wickets at an average of fractionally over 19. His career-best figures of 8/87 came in bizarre circumstances in 1975 against Middlesex at Lord's. Frustrated by a game that was apparently heading for a dull draw, Snow delivered a slow, high full-toss which landed on the stumps. Snow said: "The game was going nowhere so I mucked about, alternating bouncers with loopy things that came from over the top of the sightscreen out of those lovely, silvery, feathery trees that used to wave about behind the arm. The best figures of my life, and I got them with long-hops and donkey-drops."

Snow first played for England in 1965 in the Second Test against New Zealand at Lord's and made a promising start, picking up four wickets in an England victory. He went on to become a more or less permanent fixture in the national side for the next 11 years. He performed consistently with his 100th Test wicket coming in his 26th match and his 200th being taken in his 49th - and final - Test match. His most successful series were those in the West Indies in 1967/68 when he took 27 wickets in four matches and in Australia in 1970/71, when Illingworth's side brought back the Ashes, and Snow finished with 31 wickets in five games.

The international one-day game was largely in its infancy during Snow's career and he played only nine ODIs for England. He bowed out in the 1975 World Cup semi-final defeat against Australia at Headingley, when he finished with a respectable 2/30 off his 12 overs. He then signed for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket but his first-class career was, by then, virtually at an end anyway. (Copyright CricInfo 2001)

* Last Updated: Tuesday, 30-Jul-2002 00:47:11 GMT


 
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